government's keenness on strengthening partnership frames with local private sector.Opening a workshop on discussing the final draft of the new investment law, al-Arhabi assured that the reforms adopted by the government for upgrading legislations of activating investment potentials in Yemen targets, firstly, the promotion of the national private sector to contribute to the development process in the country.He pointed out that transferring the privileges from the new investment law to the income tax law would promote the local and foreign private sector to set up investments in Yemen, noting that the government is to take in consideration all notes of the national private sector on the new investment law.The Head of Yemeni Businessmen Council (YBC) Mohammed Abdu Saeed affirmed the private sector's keenness on enhancing the current and future partnership with the government, hailing the government's serious trends for activating such partnership.Saeed stressed on the significance of gathering the government and the national private sector efforts in order to overcome the obstacles deterring the investment process in Yemen through reinforcing the General Investment Authority (GIA)'s role and strengthening the legislative structure included in the new investment law with more terms competent to deal with these obstacles.